8.6
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Workflow 8.6.1
- System Requirements
- Basics
- Features
- The Nature of PlanetPress Workflow
- About Branches and Conditions
- Configuration Components
- Connect Resources
- About Data
- Data Repository
- About Documents
- Debugging and Error Handling
- The Plug-in Bar
- About Printing
- About Processes and Subprocesses
- Using Scripts
- Special Workflow processes
- About Tasks
- Task Properties
- Variable Properties
- Working With Variables
- About Configurations
- About Related Programs and Services
- The Interface
- Customizing the Workspace
- PlanetPress Workflow Button
- The Configuration Components Pane
- Components Area Sections
- Processes and Subprocesses
- Manipulate Global Variables
- Connect Resources
- PPS/PSM Documents
- Associate Documents and PlanetPress Printer Queues
- Using the Clipboard and Drag & Drop
- Rename Objects in the Configuration Components Pane
- Reorder Objects in the Configuration Components Pane
- Grouping Configuration Components
- Expand and Collapse Categories and Groups in the Configuration Components Pane
- Delete Objects and Groups from the Configuration Components Pane
- Other Dialogs
- The Debug Information Pane
- The Message Area Pane
- The Object Inspector Pane
- The Plug-in Bar
- Preferences
- Other Preferences and Settings
- General appearance preferences
- Object Inspector appearance preferences
- Configuration Components Pane appearance preferences
- Default Configuration behavior preferences
- Notification Messages behavior preferences
- Sample Data behavior preferences
- Network behavior preferences
- PlanetPress Capture preferences
- OL Connect preferences
- PDF Text Extraction Tolerance Factors
- General and logging preferences
- Messenger plugin preferences
- HTTP Server Input 1 plugin preferences
- HTTP Server Input 2 plugin preferences
- LPD Input plugin preferences
- Serial Input plugin preferences
- Telnet Input plugin preferences
- PlanetPressFax plugin preferences
- FTP Output Service preferences
- PlanetPress Image preferences
- LPR Output preferences
- PrintShop Web Connect Service preferences
- Editor Options
- The Process Area
- Zoom In or Out within Process Area
- Adding Tasks
- Adding Branches
- Edit a Task
- Replacing Tasks, Conditions or Branches
- Remove Tasks or Branches
- Task Properties Dialog
- Cutting, Copying and Pasting Tasks and Branches
- Moving a Task or Branch Using Drag-and-Drop
- Ignoring Tasks and Branches
- Resize Rows and Columns of the Process Area
- Selecting Documents in Tasks Links
- Highlight a Task or Branch
- Undo a Command
- Redo a Command
- The Quick Access Toolbar
- The PlanetPress Workflow Ribbon
- The Task Comments Pane
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
configuration. In order for the settings to work, the Add PDF to PlanetPress Search database
must be checked. However, you can override which database will be updating using the option
in this window, Override global PlanetPress Search Database settings. The database options
then activate.
l Database type: Select the type of the database in which you want to create a table
(Access, or SQL Server).
l Connection time-out: Enter the time, in seconds, that the connection to the database is
maintained while no action is taking place before the connection is severed.
l Database directory: Enter the path of the directory in which the Access database is
located, or use the Browse button to navigate to, and select, the directory. This option is
available only when you select Access database in the Database type box.
l Data source name: Enter the name of the computer on which the database runs. This
option is available only when you select SQL Server database or Oracle database in the
Database type box.
l Use default database: Select to use the default database associated with your user
profile on that SQL Server or Oracle database. Clear to enter the name of the database in
the box that appears.
l Use Windows NT Integrated security: Select to use your Windows user name and
password to log onto the SQL database.
l User ID: Enter the user id required to access the database to which you are adding new
PDI files from the generated PDF files. If you are using an SQL database, enter the login
name you chose when you configured the SQL database (refer to the “Using
PlanetPressSearch with an SQL Server Database” section of the PlanetPress Search
User Guide).
l Password: Enter the password required to access the database.
l Test Connection: Click to verify that PlanetPressImage can connect to the specified
database.
l Enforce global table creation: Select this option, as it ensures that all database users
are granted access to the database. This option is available only when you select SQL
database in the Database type box.
Download to Printer
Download to Printer action tasks are used to warn printers that the files that will be sent to
them are to be stored to a specific location rather than printed. Note that each Download to
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